Approved Courses

Updated 8/1/2025

Below is a list of courses that are approved for credit in the MCB Graduate Program. Additional 2000-level courses in BIOL, NEUR, CHEM, APMA, CSCI, and PHP can be considered for credit subject to review and approval by the MCB Executive Committee.

Course Number

Description

Semester

Credits

BIOL1100

Cell Physiology and Biophysics

Fall

1

BIOL 1110

Topics in Signal Transduction

Fall

1

BIOL 1222A/B

Current Topics in Functional Genomics

Fall

1

BIOL1250

Host-microbiome interactions in Health and Disease

Spring

1

BIOL 1295

Fundamentals of Cancer Immunotherapy

Spring

1

BIOL 1330

Biology of Reproduction

Spring

1

BIOL 1430

Foundations of Population Genetics

Fall

1

BIOL1520

Innate Immunity

Fall

1

BIOL 1550

Parasitism: Biology and Disease

Spring

1

BIOL1560

Virology

Fall

1

BIOL 1810

21st Century Applications in Cell and Molecular Biology

Spring

1

BIOL 2000C

Molecular Recognition and Signaling in Self and Non-self Interactions

Spring

1

BIOL2010B

Introduction to Data Science in Molecular Biology

Spring

1

BIOL 2025

Foundations in Statistics for Biology and Medicine

Spring

1

BIOL2030

Foundations for Advanced Study in the Life Sciences

Fall

1

BIOL 2040

Bioimaging

Spring

1

BIOL2050

Biology of the Eukaryotic Cell

Fall

1

BIOL 2145

Molecular Targets of Drug Discovery

Spring

1

BIOL2150

Scientific Communication

Fall

1

BIOL2200

Topics in Signal Transduction

Fall

1

BIOL2200B

RNA Biology

Spring

1

BIOL2270

Advanced Biochemistry

Fall

1

BIOL 2300

Biomolecular Interactions: Health, Disease and Drug Design

Fall

1

BIOL2350

The Biology of Aging

Spring

1

BIOL2540

Molecular Genetics

Spring

1

BIOL2640

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Spring

1

 

NEUR2030

Advanced Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology I

Fall

1

NEUR2040

Advanced Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology II

Spring

1

APMA0350

Applied Ordinary Differential Equations

Fall/Spring

1

APMA0360

Applied Partial Differential Equations I

Fall/Spring

1

APMA1650

Statistical Inference I

Fall/Spring

1

CSCI0150

Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming and Computer Science

Fall

1

CSCI1810

Computational Molecular Biology

Fall

1

PHP2510

Principles of Biostatistics and Data Analysis

Fall

1

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